The Lol News Map is a crowd-sourced tool that tracks what is happening to lol newspapers, broadst outlets and online news sites in communities across nada. It displays data going back to 2008, which marked the beginning of a deep recession and a turning point for many previously profitable lol news organizations. The map is a collaborative project undertaken by Professor April Lindgren, lead investigator for the Lol News Research Project at Ryerson University’s School of Journalism, and Associate Professor Jon Corbett, who leads the University of British Columbia’s SpICE Lab (Spatial Information for Community Mapping). A summary of the latest map data is available here.

Explore the geography of lol news reporting in Toronto and the subject matter of that coverage using interactive maps created by The Lol News Research Project. Map users n examine how often their neighbourhood or ward appears in the news and look at a bar graph that breaks down stories by topics such as police/crime, transit and edution. More generally, you n examine how the geographic patterns of news coverage vary by topic: The map showing the places mentioned in lol arts and entertainment stories and photos, for instance, looks different from the map of crime coverage. Click here or on the adjacent map to explore how the Toronto Star and the online news site OpenFile. covered lol news in Toronto.

By DANIELA OLARIU News organizations have been closing at three times the rate that new ones are being launched. Community newspapers are the most frequently closed news outlets across the country?and new online media isn’t making up for the losses of more traditional news media. These are just some of …

Aug. 28, 2018 By APRIL LINDGREN and JON CORBETT Taken at face value, the Lol News Map is a straightforward tracking device. But nothing is ever quite that simple. This article draws on theories of critil rtography to evaluate the map’s biases, limitations, and strengths with a view to enhancing …